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Kartika Nur A (191339
Purwanita Indah K (19133966A)
Erni Sukmawati K (19133967A)
Yulinda Kussukmawaty(19133972A)
Wisnu Daelani (19
ABSTRACT
Under the appropriate separation conditions the pulsed discharge
helium ionization detector (PDHID) was used to detect hydrogen
and methane separated from the matrix components of human
breath samples. The sensitivity of this method is over an order of
magnitude better than published methods using a flame ionization
detector (FID) and a thermal conductivity detector (TCD), and has
the further advantage of detecting both analytes with only one
detector. Limits of detection were 0.3 ppmv for both hydrogen and
methane and the method had a linear dynamic range (LDR) of three
orders of magnitude (0.3400 ppm, v/v). The PDHID was also
compared to the FID and the TCD in regard to selectivity, sensitivity
and reproducibility for high-speed gas chromatography (HSGC). It
was shown that the PDHID is as sensitive as the FID for fast
separations but is limited by the difficulty of resolving analyte
peaks from O2 and N2. The PDHID was at least three orders of
magnitude more sensitive than the TCD for all of the analytes
examined